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Community Conversations Con Cake
The UC Irvine History Project is excited to invite you to join our C4! year-long pilot program. Our goal is to bring together, in person, a diverse group of ten local high school humanities educators and create a unique learning community.
This program is a response to discussions with local teachers who have expressed their desire to build a supportive community where they can practice difficult dialogues, engage in active listening, and share stories. The goal is to develop pedagogical acumen that centers on how to have fact-based conversations while learning critically about the broader theme of human rights.
The program will consist of five meetings, beginning on May 8th, 2024, and culminating at the end of the 2024-2025 academic year.
As part of the program, we will provide opportunities and structures for storytelling, asking questions, listening for understanding, and reflection. These pedagogical practices will support teachers to implement the Common Core State Standards for Speaking and Listening, while at the same time creating a deep understanding of our shared history and goals for the advancement of human rights. The program will offer an approach to creating spaces for dialogue and activism around the ways human rights have, and have yet, to be realized in our local community and across the globe. The intention is that participants can incorporate some of these practices into their classrooms.
And of course, there will be cake!